Clayton Holmes Grissom (født 30. november 1978) kjent som Clay Aiken, er en amerikansk popsanger.
Han ble kjent via sesong to av American Idol i 2003. Han endte på andreplass i konkurransen, og fikk kontrakt med RCA Records. Debutalbumet Measure of a Man ble utgitt i oktober 2003 og solgte 613 000 eksemplarer første uken, og gikk rett til #1 på den amerikanske Billboard Top 200 albumlisten. Den solgte til 3 x platinaplate (RIAA) og totalt har den solgt 4 millioner album verden over. Han ga så ut fire musikkalbum til med RCA Records, Merry Christmas with Love, A Thousand Different Ways, EP-en All Is Well og On My Way Here, som ble utgitt 6. mai 2008.
Han stiftet National Inclusion Project (tidligere Bubel/Aiken Foundation) for handikappede barn i 2003, og ble UNICEF ambassadør i 2004. Han fikk sin Broadwaydebut i januar 2008 med rollen som Sir Robin i Monty Pythons Spamalot.
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Date: 30 November 1978
journalists at London Times put together what seems certain to be final edition before suspending publication because of labor dispute; paper's owner Lord Thompson of Fleet comments (S)
Date: 01 December 1978
By RICHARD D. LYONS Special to The New York Times
despite optimistic repts during '78 that Washington Star was at or near financial break-even point, repts are being circulated that substantial losses of previous yrs have started again, at annual rate of about $10 million; Star mgt issued ultimatum to paper's 11 unions demanding that all outstanding contracts, which have about 1 yr remaining in force, be renegotiated by Jan 1 on terms that labor leaders complain are outrageous; Star publisher George W Hoyt refuses to comment; sources at Time, which owns paper, say co wants to make clean sweep at paper, following takeover from Joe L Allbritton; Newspaper Guild repr Ray Dick and Allbritton spokesman Steve Richmond comment (M)
Date: 30 November 1978
By ANDREW H. MALCOLM Special to The New York Times
Andrew MALCOLM
Kenneth R Thomson, head of Thomson Newspapers Ltd, int on fate of London Times, facing strike threat (M)
Date: 01 December 1978
By ROBERT D. HERSHEY Jr. Special to The New York Times
Times of London suspends publication in dispute with unions; paper's mgt announces until all 65 bargaining units accept new production technology and agree to reductions in mgt, paper will not reappear; is also halting publication of Sunday Times and Times Literary, Educ and Higher Educ Supplements; Times managing dir Marmaduke J Hussey says chances of permanent shutdown are extremely remote; Natl Graphical Assn has refused to bargain because Times Newspapers issued ultimatum in April that it would shut down on Nov 30 unless its conditions were met; Kenneth R Thomson, head of owning co, Internatl Thomson Orgn, says he hopes shutdown will be for minimum time; illus of front page of last issue (M)
Date: 30 November 1978
By EDWARD RANZAL
Edward RANZAL
NYC City Council session on homosexual rights bill disrupted by presence of photographer, permitted by Council Pres Carol Bellamy over objections of Councilman Edward Sadowsky; illus; Council, 28-12, overrules Bellamy and orders photographer out; Bellamy sees violation of spirit of open govt (S)
Date: 30 November 1978
By DEIRDRE CARMODY
Deirdre CARMODY
NY Post announces it will suspend publication of its 8-wk-old Sunday edition; publisher Rupert Murdoch comments; vp and gen mgr Byron S Greenberg says since strike, Sunday paper's circulation has been 400,000 (S)
Date: 01 December 1978
By JON NORDHEIMER Special to The New York Times
Jon Special
Deborah Layton Blakey, former member of inner leadership circle of Rev Jim Jones People's Temple, asserts that US officials at Amer Embassy in Georgetown were 'extremely close' to Jones, and she says that 1 of them, Richard McCoy, had told her not to take her assertions of oppression and possible mass suicide to press; warning came in phone conversation; she says few days after call she recd lr, apparently from Jones, that referred to her conversation with McCoy and threatened her life if she took her complaints to press (S)
Date: 01 December 1978
By ADAM CLYMER Special to The New York Times
Adam Special
Ellsberg illus